The art instinct beauty, pleasure, & human evolution

Introduction -- Landscape and longing -- Art and human nature -- What is art? -- "But they don't have our concept of art" -- Art and natural selection -- The uses of fiction -- Art and human self-domestication -- Intention, forgery, Dada : three aesthetic problems -- The contingency o...

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1. Verfasser: Dutton, Denis (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, Berlin u.a. Bloomsbury Press 2009
Ausgabe:1. U.S. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction -- Landscape and longing -- Art and human nature -- What is art? -- "But they don't have our concept of art" -- Art and natural selection -- The uses of fiction -- Art and human self-domestication -- Intention, forgery, Dada : three aesthetic problems -- The contingency of aesthetic values -- Greatness in the arts.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index
Introduction -- Landscape and longing -- Art and human nature -- What is art? -- "But they don't have our concept of art" -- Art and natural selection -- The uses of fiction -- Art and human self-domestication -- Intention, forgery, Dada : three aesthetic problems -- The contingency of aesthetic values -- Greatness in the arts
Beschreibung:278 S.
25 cm
ISBN:9781596914018
978-1-59691-401-8
1596914017
1-59691-401-7